Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place

✍ Scribed by Elaine T. James

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying interest in the natural world. Engaging with the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature, James critiques the tendency of scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy between "nature" and "culture" and instead argues that the poetic attention to landscape indicates an awareness of a viewer. Nature is here a poetic device that informs James's close-readings of agrarianism, gardens, cities, social control, and feminism and the gaze in the Song. With this two-fold emphasis on landscape and lyric, Landscape of the Song of Songs shows how the Song persistently envisions a world in which human lovers are embedded in the natural world, complexly enfolded in relationships of fragility and care.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Landscapes of the Song of Songs
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Landscape and Lyric
2. The Agrarian Landscape
3. The Garden
4. The Cityscape
5. The Map of the Body
6. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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